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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-18

A Crisis in the Affairs of Corea, Resulting
from Recent Diplomatic Appointments
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-THE steamship
Rio de Japeiro, which arrived from Hong Kong
and Yokohoma this morning, brings advices
to the effect that crisis is approaching in the
affairs of Corea, over which kingdom the En-
peror of China claims sovereignty. Simultaneous
ly with the appointment by the King of Corea
of five ministers plenipotentiary to represent
the Corean government in European courts,
Mr.. Yuen, Chinas resident minister in Seoul
Corea. left the city secretly. The Japan Mail.
commenting the affair. says: ''Yuen's de-
parture has been made the subject Of strange
stories One rumor has it that he fed from
threatened assassination. Considering the of
fensivey busy part he is said to have taken in
Corean affairs, there is no difficulty in believing
he has many enemies. but it seems much more
likely that he has gone to consult the Viceroy,
who is practically monarch of Corea."
The Chinese Times says, in substantiation
''The cause of the disagreement between China
and Corea is, no doubt, the recent app ointment
of ministers to represent the kingdom at FIVE
European courts. The sending of legation to
Japan alone a step which by itself
would have excited the alarm of the Chi
nese government, but the dispatch Of mission to
is incompatible with the essential interests of
reason for a Chinese resident to quit his post
not like escaping criminal, o'clock in the
morning. but in the open day and with all due
eola
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Minor Notes.

The lad, Gilbert Cook, who shot himself in
the abdomen at Madison, Saturday. still
alive yesterday.
Rev VIM wycoff. of Madison. will 90 this
week to take charge of the churches on Harris
vile circuit of the Southeast Indiana Methodist
Episcopal Conference.
John Turner accidentally killed while
working at saw-nill at Marengo. Crawford
county Monday. He had wife and four
children, and was a sober and industrious man.
At Madison. Sunday, John Hazers skull was
broken by his step-sen, Thomas Curry. The
latter was defending his mother and sisters from
the formers drunken attacks. HazePs recovery
is doubtful.
The officers and directors of the Knox County
Fair Association were arrested for permitting
gam bling and beer-seling on the fair grounds.
They will pay their fines without murmur, as
the law Is against Thorn.
Rev. j. w. Turner, of the Southeast Indiana
Methodist Episcopal Conference who five
weeks ago appointed to Trinity Church. Madi-
fever and utterly unable for duty since,
but is now in a fair way to recovery.
Chas Blue committed suicide at Mentone,
Wabash county. on Saturday, by shooting him
years of age. Cause unknown. He was cou1-
fortably we'll off and had no good reason. al
though he has for some time been in i'll health.
George Conrad and young man named
Emily were arrested yesterday charge of
burgarizing store at Hursttown, Harrison
county. Nearly the entire stock Of goods in the
store wes hauled away in wagon by the thieves
and put in a school-house in the neighborhood.
The towboat Minnie burned at Newburg
yesterday morning, and is a total loss. She was
owned by Captain Norwood of Newburg. and
Mr.. Taylor, of Evansville. She was valued at
So. 600 and insured for 81 000 in Evansville Off
ces She had just been repaired and painted.
No lives lost.
What is pronounced by physicians the most
remarkable of tuberculosis of the system to
be found in medical records is reported from
Montpeiera post mortem held on the
body of a named jackson revealed the
fact that all the organs of the deceased were full
OF tuberces. and that the heart had almost en-
tirely wasted away. He had been sick less than
year.
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SPECTACLES.
Their Use and Abuse.
DR.. BARKER, the Oculist & Aurist.

We wish to call the attention of the intelligent pubs
lie to this important but neglected subject.
Since depends upon the information of
patrons. would ask those in terested read tho
following recognized eye authorities. which be
found in almost any prominent physicians library
Mittendorf. p. 316 to 357; Stellwag p. 677 to S54
Wells, 612 to GIL: Cutter 422 to 495; Power. 59l
to S15; Londolt, 90 to 2O7
We shall use utmost endeavor. by every faiH
and honorable means, to induce those who need
spectacles, from any whatever and parents Of
guardians who have children with abnormal vision
to call upon us, learn advantages and see thG
evidence of success; believing they win decide
that the former unsurpassed the latter ualed
and that an opportunity favorable to for
one price the services of both a skilled oculist and
optcian is offered by else If you find
statements correct will be glad to furnish all the
artificial aid within the reach of human skill IF you
do not fit to patronize shall be the lesa
jealous in FORMULATING the truth urging you trust
no one who has not only thorough knowledge of the
laws of vision. but its abnormal refraction and all the
malformations ard diseases to which the eye sub<
ject For since spectacles essential in the proee
ton of the and the preservation of sight, they
should be treated scientifically the eye itself.
Their wrong not only produces a large peg
cent of eye Affections, but Is conducive of Of
the most serious nervous disturbances They produce
squirting rupture of the retina engagement of tho
blood vessels granular lids weak eyes, double vision,
Inflammation of the nerves. specks before the eyes
dizziness, headache, ETC., besides interfering with the
circulation and nutrition of the blood This in turn
may produce bl ain Affections thereby
not only entaling loss of sight but untold misery and
often premature graves.
Fully apprecating the importance of this intricats
undertaking. have made special preparation it.
After most thorough scientific examination we make
prescription and then prepare the glass for each
individual case, hence conscientously promise
universal satisfaction less price than is usually
charged for the prescription alone. Prices depend
upon the material used in mounting. ranging from
So. SO upward.
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A NIHIIIST DISGUISE.
How the Gear Killers Conceal Their Identity
and Circulate Their Books.

How the Gear Killers Conceal Their Identity
and Circulate Their Books.
Odessa Letter in london News
case transpired here tho other day which
reveals in . curious manner the successful ruses
adopted By the Nihilists for the spread of tn cir
revolutionary literature. An apparently half
demented and harmless person. a young man
of some twenty-five years of age, and very
poorly clad, had for some time past picked mp
a precarious livelihood as q Deripatetic vendor of
alma nacs. calendars, children's story books. etc
All of these articles OF the cheap, popular
quality. His basket and wallet contained also
the snowy prints of religious subjects much
affected by the poorer classes. few days ago
he was detected in the sale of Nihilist litera-
ture. He arrested and his stock
confiscated. His character OF a poor imbecile,
supported by the evidence of the police, and his
story Of acquiring the forbidden literature at a
triang cost from unknown stranger, and his
geperai incoherence and inability to read or
write were evident to the bench that he
at once discharged. A couple of days later it
found that the imbecile colporteur's pass
port false. and the citizens discovering that
he was known to certain citizens appearing
on many occasions In private circles as we'll
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Aid for the Helpless Young.

CHICAGO Oct. 17-At the meeting of the
Youths National Home and Employment Asso
citation, at Farvell Hall, this morning the fol-
lowing officers for the year were elected: Col.
Alexander Hogeland, Lincoln, Neb., president;
Hon. John A Jameson, Chicago Mrs. N. L.
Harrison, Chicago; F. NJ Ferguson, Kansas
City; w. n Haldeman. Louisville, KY. Fl. II.
Hart. St. Paul. vicepresiden,s; j. B. Bell.
Minneapolis Mimi, treasurer: Rev. j. j. Wal
tiers. Joliet. ILL.,, recording secretary; S. B.
Williams, Minneapolis, Mimi. CORES bonding
secretary. Executive board Rev. DIR. j. S.
Jenckes. Indianapolis; j. S. Whitehead. James
vile, Wis; c. w. Harper. Uvalde, Tex; Judge
Ferris. Nashville. Tenn. E. Wilder. Kansas;
Mrs. G. NJ. Leighton Nebraska; j. B. Phelps,
Davenport; Mrs. NJ Zelford Denver Col; Mrs.
A Whettenmeyer, Philadelphia; Miss Mary L.
Buffurn, Pawtucl;et, r. l.; Mrs. G. B. Holmes,
Chicago
The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That the Governors of each State and
Territory be and hereby are elected honorary
bers of this association and that the corresponding
secretary send them notice of their election.
Resolved, That Article of the constitution be
amended as to read five vicepresidents instead Of
two, as now.
The president and secretary were authorized
to select and appoint in each State and Terri
tory. some competent person whose duty it shall
be to act State agent for the distribution of
printed matter, gathering statistics and other
work pertaining TO the association.
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Gable Notes.

Gustav Robert Krchoff, eminent natural
scientist and discoveror of the spectroscope is
dead.
The civil magistrate before whom the Caffarel
case was brought has decided that it is not case
for civil prosecution, and the disgraced general
will be tried by court-m artal.
MIR. Gladstone arrived at Manchester yester-
day and was heartily cheered by the crowd
which had gathered to welcome him. He will
speak at the meeting Of the Liberal Federation
in Nottingham to day.
This report that meeting of tho Emperor of
Germany and the Gar of Russia would take
place in Pomerania within two weeks is official
ly denied and from the same source it is an
nounced that meeting of the two Emperors,
at any time or place whatever, is projected.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Pat Tucker was instantly killed and Mix
Brennan fatally injured while working in thi
new postoffice building at Louisville. KY They
were crushed by the fall of derrick.
The jury in the frankie Bell case at Brook
lyn. N Y, after being out seven hours. returned
verdict, last night, of guilty of malpractice,
against broker CORTLAND II. Blivens
boy named Charles Wilcox, gate keeper OF
the Dallas turnpike. near Wilkesbarre, Pa, yes
teaday shot and killed another boy. named
George Brooks. while playing with a revolver.
Miss Adela Baker, OF Whitefeld. N. H., ha,
been arrested for smotherirg her illegltimar
baby. She admits the crime, and says she i,
glad she killed the child She does not seem Il
realize the gravity of the offense
John Lawrence. aged fifty. a ciear-dealer al
526 East Eleventh street. New York, last night
shot and fatally wounded Herman Mayer,
cigar maker aged twenty-five. in his store and
then shot himself dead. The cause 10 moi
known.
A skif containing six men was capsized in the
Allegheny river yesterday, aud two brothers, j.
and II. Neville. were drowned. The Others
managed to keep up until rescued. The mel
were engaged in repairing the Foxburg bridge
and were crossing the river for their dinneI
when the accident occurred.
Elmer j. Miles, missing real estate dealer Of
Brooklyn, who is seventy years of age. has re-
turned to his home. During a temporary aber,
ration of mind he wandered off, and, as near al
be learned has been going through the
different cemeteries reading the the inscriptions
the Iombstones in order find his son1
grave. His son is in an insane asylum.
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Brief Mention.

Miss Florence J. lies. of Paramount. was mar
ried to Levi Wilcox. young farmer last Thurs
day evening Since the wedding the bride has
fallen heir to $4,000 which was left Ter by
rich aunt of Coshocton, O.
Department Commander Sweetzer has APP
pointed DIR. /. s. Hughes, of Springfield, as
chief mastering officer of the Grand Army OF
Illinois, to fill the vacancy his staff caused by
the death of Capt. John G. Mack.
Elder John Lindsay died in Eureka. Saturday,
aged sixev-six years. He well known
throughout Central Illinois. being of the
pioneer preachers of the Christian Church, and
an active member of the Prohi bition party.
Laban NJ. Stroud, of Tazeweli county.
wealthy farmer. was taxed $1,000 by the verdict
Of jury Saturday night in the case Of Mrs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-18
WAS 1T LUCKY CATCHe
An Eagle Made Prisoner Four Hundred
Miles Sea.

4NAhcS al sea.
New York Times.
Is it good or bad luck to catch an eagle at sea
400 miles so from land2 Mate Govier, of the
steamship Jersey City. of the Bristol line which
arrived at this port last Tuesday from Bristol
wants to know, and will be obliged to anyone
posted omens who will drop him line on
board the steamer at the foot of West Twenty
fifth street The eagle is there. and may be seen
by anyone who cares to scramble over bales,
barrels. boxes and trucks. climb eang-plank
inclined at An angle OF about 49, and penetrate
the labyrlnthian passages OF the freight steamer.
Without doubt IL was a lucky thing that
happened to this particular eagle last Sunday
when he sighted the Jersey City. just when
he brought his bnocular glasses to bear the
vessel. it is not known; but mate Govier
brought his to solve the mystery of the thing
Tapping from the upper topsail yard about IL
o'clock Sunday night It was the mates watch,
and all was well Suddenly he rubbed his eyes
He had happened to look aloft, and to his great
surprise part of the sail blowing in the
wind. having escaped from it's fasteniugs. At
least that was what he thought he saw; but a
closer look caused him to aim his glasses at the
supposed piece of sail. when he perceived thatit
sail at all, but a bird of some sort and
big one.
up aloft you lubbers, and fetch me down
that bird" shouted the mate. and two sailors
rather unwillingly proceeded to execute his or
ders. The eagle was too exhausted TO make much
of a struggle. He was soon captured and f1ut-
terng on the deck Mate Govier had the ships
carpenter fix box with Stats in the morning
and there the bird now is 1t a question
what he would get TO eat before the Jersey City
reached port for there was no fresh meat, but
the matter was easily solved the next day after
the capture hawk flew aboard and was
caught, much to the mates and the eagles de-
light. Another hawk and two other birds also
fell victims before the Jersey City reached Sandy
Hook. and the eagle did not want for food.
Since his arrival he has eaten meat.
The eagle is comparatively young one, and
not remarkably cross although he does not in
vite handling. He has not been weighed but
would probably tip the scales at from six to ten
pounds and would measure between five and six
feet from tip to tip. The color is dark gray on
the back, the feathers having white tips and
white below. Mate Govier says he will take
the bird across the Atlantic and make a present
of him some geological garden the other
side. If anyone is anxious to purchase eagle
with rather romantic history, however, the
geological garden will not be likely to have the
chance either to refuse accent the high flyer.
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The Telegraph consolidation.

NEW YORK. Oct 17.-Dr. Norvin Green. pres
idant of the Western Union Telegraph Company,
said to-day that he had received from President
Bates. of the Baltimore e. Ohio a statement OF
the business of that company. The company's
total receipts were, for the fiscal year ending
Sept. 80. 81, 9s5 506 Mr. Bates estimated that
the Western Union company couid retain 81, :
800. 600 of that business at expense of less
than $500, 600 per annum The actual mileage
transferred by the B. & o. is as follows: Owned.
81, COB miles: leased. 1904; controlled. ALSO.
The number of Offices taken over is over ], 900,
about 2o0 of which not duplicated by the
Western Union. The Baltimore & Ohio carried
$500. 900 messages the Western Union AZ, 300,-
900 during the year. The ten and ffteen-cent
rates OF the Baltimore e. Ohio are to be abol-
isned
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Young Hunter Kills His Brother

BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 17-Francis and
George Bishop, brothers, aged eighteen and
twenty years respectively. residing at ITO South
Wolf street. this city. went cunning this morn
ing Back river. The boys became separated
on the jackson farm. Shortly afterward George
fired in a copse of bushes at some backbirds
Hearing a scream. he rushed up and found his
brother lying on the ground with the ribs ia
the left side torn away. The wounded boy died
almost instantly.
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Charges Against senator Mcpherson.

TRENTON, N. j., Oct. 1Z-Henry S. Little
will publish to morrow fifteen column reitera-
ton of his charges against Senator Mcpherson,
of bargaining secure the election of Mr..
Sewell as Senator, In return for business favors.
what purport to be Photographic copies of letters
from Senator Mcpherson bearing on the su bject.
The attack is a very bitter one, and Mr.. Little
declares that Mr.. Mcpherson ought to shoot
him if the charges are not proved.
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ILLINOIS.
An Alleged Murderer interrupted in Time To
Prevent His Escape from Jail.

Prevent HIS Escape from jail.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal
NATION, Oct 17.-During the early hours of
a recent evening W. P. Cor bin. who is confined
in Jail at Sullivan, ILL.,, a charge of murder
ing Charles T. Harris, made an attempt to es-
cape by adopting the jeff Davis dodge. His
wife has been permitted to take his meals to
him from their home, and was allowed access to
his quarters without reserve. On the evening
in question Deputy Sheriff Linder. who acts
jailor, became impatient at the prolonged visit
Mrs. Corbin was making, and proceeded to in
vestigate Mrs. Corbin was not visible, but Mr..
Corbin was buttoning womans dress over his
rotund form. and getting ready to step ont for
call Corbin seems to realize that he is in for
it, and is in nowise particular how he gets out,
SO he saves his neck.
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Robinson, of Miner against him for damages
for defamation of character. Mrs. Robinson
sued for $40 900. She is the proprietress of q
hotel at MINER.
Henry Bimes. Saturday. walked up to Con-
stable Shaw, in Gresnville, and. exclaiming,
~ on are a dead man." shot him through the
right breast The two are neighbors. and had
quarreled several daye ago. Shaws wound may
not prove fatal, although penetrating the lung.
Il is dangerous Bimes fed.
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Bogus NiCkela.

Special to the Indiarapolis Journal
PERU, Oct. 11-Yesterday afternoon, while
Playing upon the river bank. a number of boys
discovered hidden in the bank wooden box,
tin lined. and containing large cigar box filled
with spurious nickels, most of them good
counterfeits. and bearing dates of 1867 and 1868.
The newness of the box shows that they had
been buried only short time. There is no clew
as to who hid them there.
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The C.. III. & ID. LITIGATION.

CINcINNATT Oct. lin the case. at Hamil-
TO n, o.. to-day. of the Cincinnati. Hamilton &
Dayton railway. which came up demurrer to
the amended petition of G. K. Duckworth to
make the directors of the c.. H. & D. road de-
PENDANTS, the demurrer overrrled, and the
defense took exceptions After protracted legal
manuverng the work of the day wound I'D
by the presenting of an affidavit of great length
by William Hooper. and by legal sparring over
it. Very little real progress made in the
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Ohituarv

LOUISVILLE, Oct. IS-C. W. Hurley, said to
be editor of the Houston, Texas, Daily Post.
died on a Louisville & Nashville train route
to this city from Cincinnati about II O'Clock to-
night, when Walton station. distant twenty miles
from Louisville, was reached. His death result
ed from q violent hemorrage. He return
ing from business trip. and was in the Texas
sleeper at the time of his death.
\ ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 1L-Dr. j. r. Boulware
assistant surgeon of the One hundred and sew
enty-seventh New York Volunteers during the
war, and a native Of kentucky, died tonight.
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Steamship News.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11-Arrived: Fulda, from
Bremen.
HAvRE. Oct 1Z-Arrived La Bretagne, from
New York
BALTIMORE, Oct 17.-Arrived: America,
frem Bremen
PLYMOUTH. Oct. 17.-Arrived: Rhaetia, from
New York for Hamburg.
GLASGOW, Oct. 17.-Arrived State of Ne
braska, from New York.
SOUTHAMPTON. Oct. 17-Arrved: Werra
from New York for Bremen.
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dressed, well educated and highiy-informed
young man who spoke learnedly matters of
internal policy, a warrant was Immediately is
sued for his rearrest. 1t is needless to say that
he has not been found, nor is he likely to be.
The characters and DISCUSSES assumed by many
of these young propagandists defy the utmost
vigilance of the regular and secret police and
successfully deceive in this case. both maRis-
trates and the so-called lynx-eyed Russian
Judges of instruction.
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The Illinois w. C. r. u.

Special the IndianaDOII6 JOurnaL
BLooMINGToN, Oct. 1.-THE annual State
convention of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union Of Illinois opened to night. with
a literary and musical mass meeting in the in
terest of temperance, presided by Mrs.
Rounds. of Chicago. president of the State
Womans Christian Temperance Union, and con-
Quoted by the Young Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. The Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union of Illinois has $4,000 members.
and some 600 delegates will be present. and will
be entertained by the ladies OF the city during
the convention, which will end on Friday.
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ELKHART Ind, Oct. 1z.-Thieves stole val
liable horse from Joseph SPOTS; another from
E. Perkins, and carriage and double harness
from Fremont Thomas, the outskirts of this
city. last night There is no clew to the thieves
though a vigorous effort is being made to find
them.
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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
Various Kinds in the Two States.
Mount Vernon-Bogus Nickels Found-A
Murderer Attempts to Escape from Jail.
INDIANA.

Mount Vernon Saloons Forced to Obey the
Law-Successful Temperance Work.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE. Oct. 1.-THE Murphy temp
erance movement has worked wonders in Mount
Vernon, Posey county where Francis Murphy
has just closed meeting. Over 700 persons
signed the pledge. Last Fiday night a meeting
wasIheld and permanent organization effected.
A committee waited on Mayor Terry and asked
him to enforce the laws of the State in regard to
closing saloons. He said he would do so, and on
Saturday issued proclamation to all saloon
keepers to obey the Law by closing at IL p NJ,
and on Sundays. He quoted two sections of the
statutes and closed by calling upon tho officers
Of the city to enforce the law. although objections
were made by q few saloon men. The procla-
nation was strictly obsyed. and yesterday the
twenty-seven saloons Of the city were closed,
back and front doors There is much reioic
ing over the result amongst w-abiding people.